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"Are you sure?" asked the Savage.
“你有把握？”野蠻人問，
Are you quite sure that the Edmund in that pneumatic chair hasn't been just as heavily punished as the Edmund who's wounded and bleeding to death?
你有充分的把握坐這兒氣墊椅里的愛德蒙不會(huì)遭到跟那個(gè)愛德蒙同樣嚴(yán)厲的懲罰？
The gods are just. Haven't they used his pleasant vices as an instrument to degrade him?
那個(gè)受傷流血快要死去的愛德蒙。諸神是公正的……他們難道不會(huì)因?yàn)樗麑g作樂、成為邪惡的工具而貶斥他？
Degrade him from what position? As a happy, hard-working, goods-consuming citizen he's perfect.
在什么地方貶斥他？作為一個(gè)快樂、勤奮、消費(fèi)著商品的公民，這個(gè)愛德蒙無懈可擊。
Of course, if you choose some other standard than ours,
當(dāng)然，如果你要采用跟我們不同的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，
then perhaps you might say he was degraded. But you've got to stick to one set of postulates.
你也許可以說他被貶斥了。但是我們應(yīng)該堅(jiān)持同一套規(guī)則，
You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf according to the rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.
不能按玩汪汪狗患離心球的規(guī)則玩電磁高爾夫。
"But value dwells not in particular will," said the Savage.
“但是價(jià)值不能夠憑私心的愛憎決定；”野蠻人說，
It holds his estimate and dignity as well wherein 'tis precious of itself as in the prizer.
一方面這東西的本身必須確有可貴之處，另一方面它還必須為估計(jì)者所重視。它的價(jià)值必須這樣來確定。
"Come, come," protested Mustapha Mond, "that's going rather far, isn't it?"
“好了，好了，”穆斯塔法.蒙德抗議了，“這不離題太遠(yuǎn)了嗎？”
If you allowed yourselves to think of God, you wouldn't allow yourselves to be degraded by pleasant vices.
如果你讓你自己想到上帝，就不會(huì)讓自己因?yàn)轱L(fēng)流罪過而墮落。
You'd have a reason for bearing things patiently, for doing things with courage. I've seen it with the Indians.
你必須有理由耐心地承擔(dān)一切和鼓起勇氣做事。這，我在印第安人身上看見過。
"l'm sure you have," said Mustapha Mond. But then we aren't Indians.
“我肯定你看見過，”穆斯塔法.蒙德說，但我們不是印第安人，
There isn't any need for a civilized man to bear anything that's seriously unpleasant.
我們沒有必要讓文明人承擔(dān)什么嚴(yán)重的折磨。
And as for doing things–Ford forbid that he should get the idea into his head.
至于鼓起勇氣做事——福帝禁止這種念頭進(jìn)入人們的頭腦。
It would upset the whole social order if men started doing things on their own.
如果每個(gè)人都獨(dú)行其是，整個(gè)社會(huì)秩序就會(huì)叫打亂了。
What about self-denial, then? If you had a God, you'd have a reason for self-denial.
那么對(duì)自我否定你們又怎么看呢？既然有上帝，你們也就有自我否定的理由。
But industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial.
但是必須取消了自我否定才會(huì)有工業(yè)文明。
Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.
必須自我放縱到衛(wèi)生和經(jīng)濟(jì)所能容忍的最高限度，否則輪子就會(huì)停止轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)。
